I was wondering the scale of everyone's SpiceWorks environment. We're on a ~200 mixed computer environment with an exchange server and several other servers, some virtual some not. We run everything from XP to 7 and OSX 10.4 to 10.7 and have multiple printers, routers, switches and a full set of IP phones for the employees.

I was wondering what everyone thought about their experience and if anyone wanted to suggest any advice of implementing the application.

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We have about 80 clients and maybe another 20 servers. All most all of them are Windows based. Two CentOS boxes and two (soon to be five) VMWare servers. We also have three sites and are looking to add a Co-Lo and a new store. All of our printers are HP. We have a blend of Dell and Cisco switches. Sadly, we are still on digital phones.

As for the SW application... Don't be afraid to customize it. Custom attributes for devices and a plug-ins are what make a moderate Inventory monitoring/help desk system in a critical system. Also, if you are in charge of purchasing, the RFQ and purchase list can really save you time and stress. My boss wanted a list of all of our purchases for 2011. One simple report later, and I was done. No digging up records or anything like that.

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We just installed Spiceworks. We are primarily a Windows shop, with some OS X, and various Unix flavors. We are changing from Netsuite to this for our IT group, which looks to be a huge improvement. We have approximately 50-60 clients and about a dozen servers. We have multiple networks in play, a 4.5meg flex dsl, business class cable, and MPLS. My hope is to get a better centralized picture and control over our network with Spiceworks. I look really forward to engaging in the Spiceworks community and learning as much as I can about the platform.

Well we have about 80 machines in our corporate office running a mixture of XP, 7, VM and OSX. We have 10 remote sites throughout the neighboring states. Overall we have probably close to 200 machines running. We have analog phones at our remote offices, but VoIP here at the corporate office. So we literally have a bit of everything.

Spiceworks helps out a lot in keeping track of these items and helps me keep my sanity in maintaining the assets. One of the nice features is you can set alerts to unwanted applications, so if someone 'accidentally' installs Limewire it will let you know. This helps a lot for users who hope to sneak these things past you. Almost anything that you can think of can be set to an alert for automatic reminders. If you have any questions on how to implement anything let me know and I'll be more than happy to throw in my two cents.

We have about 80 clients and maybe another 20 servers. All most all of them are Windows based. Two CentOS boxes and two (soon to be five) VMWare servers. We also have three sites and are looking to add a Co-Lo and a new store. All of our printers are HP. We have a blend of Dell and Cisco switches. Sadly, we are still on digital phones.

As for the SW application... Don't be afraid to customize it. Custom attributes for devices and a plug-ins are what make a moderate Inventory monitoring/help desk system in a critical system. Also, if you are in charge of purchasing, the RFQ and purchase list can really save you time and stress. My boss wanted a list of all of our purchases for 2011. One simple report later, and I was done. No digging up records or anything like that.

Anyone else want to chime in?

I would like to talk with you at the next meeting about your plans of going to a COLO environment. I know we bought our VoIP Service, MPLS, Internet, and COLO Space all from one provider at a good rate but there are many options out there.

We have about 20 virtual servers, 50 virtual desktops and about 60 physical clients. We have only 1 Physical server that we have to move on last application off of. We do not have Exchange, we have Google Apps. We mostly run Windows 7 and Server 2003 R2 but we still have some XP Boxes that we need to reformat with Thin PC. We have multiple Printers, Routers, and switches. We have VoIP Phone Handsets but no VoIP Phone system since it is hosted by our Telco. I just recently got my installed again and restored from backup early this past week. It was fairly difficult at first but was easy after the initial install. I'm still trying to figure out how to get access to it from my phone through my sonicwall.

I would like to talk with you at the next meeting about your plans of going to a COLO environment. I know we bought our VoIP Service, MPLS, Internet, and COLO Space all from one provider at a good rate but there are many options out there.

There are indeed many options. I'll be happy to talk to you about this at the next SpiceCorps.

If you want to get the ball rolling, you can shoot me a PM or we can start a new topic in the Columbus group about service providers.

Lastly, you can always poke around the ratings & reviews section. I'm pretty sure most of the larger local providers are listed.

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